As we walked the coast path towards Dunrobin Castle this morning we were told that two otters were playing on the foreshore not a hundred metres away but by the time we reached the spot they had, as otters do, disappeared. We were joined by several other people who had heard the news but....
....even if the otters were still there the seaweed-covered boulders made spotting them very difficult - in this picture there's a turnstone, if you can find it.
Most of the occupants of the shore seemed asleep, like these three of about a dozen curlews standing one-legged on rocks as the tide rose around them, as were....
....the few redshanks and....
....these oystercatchers, which had two pied crows in close attendance.
The local shoreline has never seemed to us an ideal place for otters, with too many people and too many dogs, but we are continually being told that they're there. For us therefore, it's just a matter of time, patience, and a bit of luck.
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